PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning
2 Dec 2016
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Argued that humans are inherently good, helpful, non deceitful, & understanding of one another. Personality is said to develop from the innate desire to better ourselves & achieve self-ful llment/self-actualization. Self: perceptions we have of ourselves & our relationship to others & the environment. Ideal self: perceptions of the self we would like to be or are capable of being. Rogers believed that how happy we are in life depends on how close the self is to the ideal self. We are happy & content when the two converge. We are unhappy & dissatis ed when the two are discrepant. As personality develops: self > ideal self. There are no stages of personality development; it is a continuous process. Theories emphasize external events in the shaping of personality. They believe that our personalities are determined through learning, thinking, & other environmental in uences. Personality: the composite of all our behaviors/attitudes that have been acquired through:
